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Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Ohio County Index Card Notes: Memorial of the Board of Trade of the city of Wheeling, to the honorable, the general assembly of the State of Virginia: your petitioners respectfully represent, that they are the representatives of the business community of the city of Wheeling, the second commercial city in the State of Va., and as such, they are bound, in duty to their interests, and the State, to submit these facts...etc. The said road would connect with the...

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Place of Publication: Wheeling
Index Card Notes: Fruit. Fruit. Wheeling? 1849. Signed: W. & E. Zane. Dated: Nov. 12, entered in manuscript 1849. Caption title. Notice of fruit trees for sale by Zane's nursery on Zane's Island. ZANE
Photostat Copy. Henry R. Kelley 1959 May 26

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Ohio County Index Card Notes: To the honorable, the general assembly of Virginia: The Memorial of the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Co., by the president and board of managers thereof, respectfully represents, your memorialist is a corporation...That erected a wire suspension bridge over the main channel of the Ohio River, at Wheeling, and that important work has recently been completed...A few steamboats, which have been built since the bridge was undertaken, have...

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Place of Publication: Ohio County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of the state of Virginia. The memorial of the undersigned, citizens of Ohio County respectfully represents; the wants and interests of the North-West section of the state, have long required the construction of a road to connect the city of Wheeling in the County of Ohio and Clarksburg in the county of Harrison. Xerox Copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74

Subject(s): Roads.

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Content warning: the contents of this folder contains a broadside soliciting the capture of an enslaved person. Subject(s): County petitions, transportation.

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Place of Publication: Clarksburg
Index Card Notes: To Road Makers. Text begins. Clarksburg? 1850. Signed: H.L. Hoff, Superintendent. Norice to receive bids on the Clarksburg and Philippi Turnpike.
Transfer. A&M 1366. John J. Davis Family Papers Added: Nov 9, 1960

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Mason County Index Card Notes: To the members of the House of Delegates and Senate of Virginia: your petitioners, citizens of the counties of Mason, Jackson, Wirt and Gilmore, respectfully represent that the legislature at the session of 1847 passed an act authorizing construction of a turnpike road that the citizens of Mason have declined to subscribe for their amount of stock and still decline...your petitioner deprecate further delay in construction and pray...

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Place of Publication: Greenbriar County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia. We, the undersigned citizens of the county of Greenbrier, would respectfully petition your honorable body for a law, establishing a branch bank of one of the banks of Virginia, In the town of Lewisburg...The nearest bank is 70 Miles from us on the east, and 100 Miles on the west, and more on the N. and S. Xerox Copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74

Subject(s): Banks.

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Morgan County Index Card Notes: To the honorable, the general assembly of Virginia: the petition of the undersigned, citizens of the counties of Berkeley, Morgan, Frederick, Hardy and Hampshire, respectfully represents: that the construction of a graded road connecting the town of Martinsburg, in Berkeley county, a point upon the line of the B&O railroad, with a point at or near the Capon Bridge upon the Winchester and Parkersburg road...etc...your petitioners...

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Place of Publication: Fairfax, Buckner
Index Card Notes: Notice to Turnpike Road Makers. [1850] Lacks imprint. Signed: Buckner Fairfax, superintendent, Kingwood & West Union T. P. R. "General specifications for the construction of the Kingwood & West Union turnpike road." Separated from Rufus A. West 1954 Feb 3 1955 May 27 Turnpikes Kingwood & West Union turnpike road. Fairfax, Buckner Dates: 1850-1859
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